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Earlier this month, I wrote an introduction on validation and sanitization in WordPress, which emphasized the importance of making sure that data coming into your site via HTTP requests or into PHP functions is authorized, properly formed, and not malicious. That article was all about inputs. This one is all about outputs. We are going to discuss the precautions to take when retrieving data out of the database to display or input in other classes or functions. I hope by this point you are learning to trust no one and nothing. The same goes for the database. Repeat after me,”the database […]

Learn Javascript, deeply. – Matt Mullenweg Even if you haven’t watched the 2015 State of the Word address, there’s one takeaway that everyone is talking about: The future of WordPress and the web are API-powered JavaScript applications. The new WordPress.com user interface Calypso was already a sign of things to come. Not only is it utilizing the WP REST API but build with Node.js and React powering the whole thing, it is also completely based on JavaScript which will be a key part of the WordPress technology stack in years to come. So, it’s clear that it’s time to learn JavaScript […]